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Well, yeah maybe Verge has a history of being a little over-dramatic. I wouldn't blame Lauren Goode for that. The Editor-in-chief has been lamenting all over th

by sumitgt 10y ago

Well, yeah maybe Verge has a history of being a little over-dramatic. I wouldn't blame Lauren Goode for that. The Editor-in-chief has been lamenting all over the place about the removal of the 3.5mm jack from iPhones even before the product has launched!. I understand it could be a stupid decision, but a reasonable tech publication should at least wait to hear what Apple says before jumping to conclusions. As far as pairing BT headsets are concerned, I do have to visit the bluetooth setting and select the headset everytime. This is different from the initial pairing.

metheus 10y ago
Agree to your points, but and if the article was "Removing the 3.5mm jack is stupid", I wouldn't take issue with that. But that's not her claim, and my issue is with her absurd non-points in support of her claim that bluetooth headphones are annoying. Here's one more: > A plastic three-button remote is a poor substitute for an entire phone interface when it comes to controlling music, answering phone calls, or using Siri. In what way is that different than wired headphones??!! I'm surprised by your need to select your headset each time you use it, though. If that was her issue, if it was widespread, I'd absolutely concede the point. That's not been my experience at all, though. I've used 4 different headsets (all Jabra, though), a half dozen portable speakers, and am currently using two different headphone/mic models -- JayBird BlueBuds and Turtle Beach Elite 800X. Not a single one of them requires that behavior. I power them on, they connect. What is more, if I'm getting a phone call, and my headset isn't already on, when I do power it on, it connects and immediately answers the call. The only time I need to use the device selection preferences is when I switch which device I'm using the headphones with. And that works flawlessly for me. When I leave the house, I turn on my headphones and they attach to my iPhone. When I get to work, I use the bluetooth menu mar item to select the headphones and they switch over to the MacBook. When I leave I select them again on my iPhone and they switch back. If I pull out my iPad to watch a video, I switch over to them. Hell, not only does that work well, but iOS even tries to guess what app I want to switch to when it detects a bluetooth connection. Obviously this is a case of YMMV. I don't doubt that your headset doesn't work as smoothly with the iPhone. And if Lauren Goode's article had even a shred of that nuance, I wouldn't call her a hack. But both times I've noticed her work lately I've found it riddled with non-evidence in support of her claims (see her article about why WatchOS 3 is "an admission that Apple had it all wrong when it came to interactions on the first-generation Apple Watch": http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/14/11926314/apple-watch-os3-new-software-faster-third-party-apps-wwdc http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/14/11926314/apple-watch-os3-n...).

by sumitgt 10y ago

metheus 10y ago

Agree to your points, but and if the article was "Removing the 3.5mm jack is stupid", I wouldn't take issue with that. But that's not her claim, and my issue is with her absurd non-points in support of her claim that bluetooth headphones are annoying. Here's one more: > A plastic three-button remote is a poor substitute for an entire phone interface when it comes to controlling music, answering phone calls, or using Siri. In what way is that different than wired headphones??!! I'm surprised by your need to select your headset each time you use it, though. If that was her issue, if it was widespread, I'd absolutely concede the point. That's not been my experience at all, though. I've used 4 different headsets (all Jabra, though), a half dozen portable speakers, and am currently using two different headphone/mic models -- JayBird BlueBuds and Turtle Beach Elite 800X. Not a single one of them requires that behavior. I power them on, they connect. What is more, if I'm getting a phone call, and my headset isn't already on, when I do power it on, it connects and immediately answers the call. The only time I need to use the device selection preferences is when I switch which device I'm using the headphones with. And that works flawlessly for me. When I leave the house, I turn on my headphones and they attach to my iPhone. When I get to work, I use the bluetooth menu mar item to select the headphones and they switch over to the MacBook. When I leave I select them again on my iPhone and they switch back. If I pull out my iPad to watch a video, I switch over to them. Hell, not only does that work well, but iOS even tries to guess what app I want to switch to when it detects a bluetooth connection. Obviously this is a case of YMMV. I don't doubt that your headset doesn't work as smoothly with the iPhone. And if Lauren Goode's article had even a shred of that nuance, I wouldn't call her a hack. But both times I've noticed her work lately I've found it riddled with non-evidence in support of her claims (see her article about why WatchOS 3 is "an admission that Apple had it all wrong when it came to interactions on the first-generation Apple Watch": http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/14/11926314/apple-watch-os3-new-software-faster-third-party-apps-wwdc http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/14/11926314/apple-watch-os3-n...).